<p>This is the first school that didn't accept me. It's painful.</p>
<p>where have you been accepted? & I’m hoping it’s a sign we’ll actually get into ivies</p>
<p>Hi blademaster2,</p>
<p>Don’t lose hope! I’m now in college, and let me tell you, several years later, whatever (great) college you are at, you WILL be happy. Whether a college accepts you or not is not an indication of your worth. Rather, it is a representation of how competitive top college admissions these days has gotten, and most of all, a representation of how UNPREDICTABLE college admissions these days have gotten. How can we predict exactly what a college wants? How can we predict what type of students they are looking for? </p>
<p>I know people who were accepted to WashU but not Brown or Cornell, people who were accepted to Brown or Cornell but not WashU, people who were accepted to Duke but not WashU, people who were accepted to WashU but not Stanford. College decisions come in every permutation. </p>
<p>I’m going to make a prediction, and that is you ARE still going to attend a great university. Though it will not be WashU, what is important is that you hold onto your aspirations and strive in your college. After all, college is only one step in life, and the most important thing is to achieve your life values.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>All the other schools are different than WUSTL and are looking for different things. Just b/c u got rejected from WUSTL doesn’t mean you’re gonna be rejected everywhere else</p>
<p>so i got a likely letter from Dartmouth and was just waitlisted at washu. i REALLY wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>^^ Second what Equilibrium said. College admissions is unpredictable!</p>
<p>Hell no, not me.
I keep on thinking if I showed more interest, I could have, maybe, been admitted. But w/e, my stats and ECs suck anyways so this is just a fantasy of mine to make me feel better about myself.
Sigh.
Yay for more rejections on April 1st. :(</p>
<p>keikoblue2,</p>
<p>Get yourself out of the dejected state! Read what I said to the original poster.
I read your post on the Official Results page-- you DO NOT “suck” in your stats and ECs.
College admission decisions are difficult to predict because different schools look for different types of students. </p>
<p>Don’t kick yourself over not showing interest. Truth is, I was accepted without “showing interest” (though it was a top school of mine, I just didn’t tell the adcom)</p>
<p>Look, I got into Cornell, UCBerkeley, UCLA, WUSTL, waitlisted at MIT, and rejected from Brown. The point is you could still get accepted anywhere; decisions are not mutually exclusive :)</p>
<p>To xAAAx
No Ivies, lol. Just UMich and some of my safeties.</p>
<p>Thanks for making me feel better. I hope they accept some people (hopefully me) on the waitlist tomorrow or something. haha</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement, Zenith! (And congrats on your acceptance!)</p>
<p>Sorry for sounding so depressed and negative. I’m cool now.
It’s just I’ve only gotten accepted to my state school, after being deferred ED from Duke and now waitlisted by WashU. And the other schools I applied to are all pretty much of the same caliber as Duke/WashU, so you can see why I’m afraid I won’t get in to any of them, haha.
But yes, I know I’ll get into my perfect match so no more emo words from me. :)</p>
<p>If it helps anyone, my son’s college counselor said Wash U was one of the most unpredictable of schools.</p>
<p>I agree with burry. I had to withdraw from WashU due to an ED at Brown, but when I first applied I thought Brown was impossible but that WashU was a school I loved that might be more realistic. When I met with my school counselor she told me I was likely to get into Brown, but not to get my hopes up about WashU because of the interest factor and other school-specific things. I was shocked but I understand now. Our Valedictorian 2 yrs ago 1/1132 kids 2360 etc. got waitlisted. He ended up at Stanford but he didn’t visit WashU.</p>
<p>got a likely from columbia and waitlisted at wash u… lucky meeeeeee i dont care</p>
<p>I think that WashU is just very aware of the fact that it’s often just a backup, and doesn’t want to accept people that it doesn’t think will matriculate</p>
<p>@hideandseeek: lol, me too!! :p</p>
<p>Check this out: [Waitlisting</a> “Overqualified” Applicants - Ask The Dean](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000053.htm]Waitlisting”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000053.htm)</p>
<p>@everyone above:</p>
<p>this “i didn’t get in because of not demonstrating interest” is just nonsense. Wash U gets over 22,000 applications – the vast majority of which are awesome people.</p>
<p>given how EASY it is to request an interview, meet an admissions rep when they travel, send them emails or call the office, do you honestly think that the admissions officers are stupid enough to put any significant weight in this? it would be impossible to know what’s genuine and who’s doing it to game the system. every college guide book and guidance counselor tells you to “be interested” in the schools you apply to, it’s nothing magic or special to do any of that. AND, from the small sample that’s on college confidential now, there seems to be a boatload of kids being accepted who didn’t visit or interview. </p>
<p>If they accepted everyone with your definitions of “qualified”, then they’d have like 10,000 people in the freshman class! that’s impossible.</p>
<p>it’s a thing called stiff competition — Wash U isn’t a backup to anyone. There is NO way that Wash U admissions officers deny you because they think you’ll go elsewhere. How on earth can they predict that you’ll likely get into harvard or penn or stanford, and just go there instead? I mean, do you honestly think that the people Wash U accepts ONLY applied to Wash U and a bunch of random state schools? Wash U’s yield is like 35% — it’s so low because they accept the same types of kids that the ivies accept, but usually choose the ivies anyway. The overlap between Wash U’s pool and other Top 15 schools is likely to be extraordinarily similar. I mean, from the extremely small sample on this website already, for those people who are posting their Stats in the RD thread, a substantial amount of them are saying “hooray i got accepted! now just to find out from yale!!” or “crap i got waitlisted… oh well at least i got a likely from Columbia!!” </p>
<p>for every valedictorian with a 1550 SAT and five letters of recommendation that was waitlisted or rejected, there’s another person with the same stats that was accepted. </p>
<p>be humble with the decisions and move on. you’re all great kids, this is one school, and i’d guarantee that for 90% of you who didn’t get accepted, it was because there’s 20,000 other people JUST LIKE YOU who applied and not because you were under/over qualified. </p>
<p>there’s a BIG difference between what’s sufficient and what’s necessary to get accepted at highly selective schools like Wash U. Having high GPA’s and SAT’s and a good essay are necessary to be accepted, but they are not sufficient. [Necessary</a> and sufficient condition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_sufficient_condition]Necessary”>Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>also, for those of you who are saying “well two years ago the #2 kid in my school with a 2300 SAT didn’t get in but went to Stanford”… you cannot assume the rest of the statement follows as “therefore the reason he didn’t get in was because they think he’s going to stanford or because he’s too qualified”. Well, I’m not from the midwest, I was in the upper 25% of Wash U’s SATs, was in the top 5% of my class in high school, i doubt that any more than 10 people applies from my high school to Wash U in any given year, and I was accepted to schools ranked just as high (a couple higher) than Wash U but I chose to go to Wash U anyway. If anyone ever uses one person’s history of a waitlist/reject to assume that all future cases will be the same as the past… then, using the same logic of making general statements based on one observation, my application when I applied to Wash U would completely and utterly refute your reasoning because I am one person that is the opposite of your observations. </p>
<p>Also, please remember that you have all applied to college because you like that college, would like to make it home for 4 years, and want to graduate from the college. Just because a school wait-lists more people than other schools or you got an unfavorable decision should NOT refute or trump your other impressions of a college. College is 4 years of your life and continues to follow you after you graduate. Admissions is a couple short months during your teenage years. It is unreasonable and illogical to base your impressions of a college because of admissions decisions. You’re checking out these colleges because of the 4 years you’ll be there and because you want to graduate from that college… you’re not checking them out simply to collect college acceptance trophies. Shame on you if you do. </p>
<p>congrats to those who were accepted. i look forward to meeting you in the fall at Wash U! This really is the best school in the world (no bias AT ALL 
)</p>
<p>“WUSTL likes to see a sincere expression of interest from its applicants.”</p>
<p>…that’s not true because I showed absolutely no interest in WUSTL but got in…</p>
<p>As others have said, WashU tends to have a really long waitlist, probably for two reasons.</p>
<ol>
<li>It doesn’t want to give out that many acceptances</li>
<li>It wants to keep admission rates low, thus waitlists overqualified applicants.</li>
</ol>
<p>you are an exception laure327 I think. I don’t think it good to condemn a school which likes you~</p>